Hiro Iida pitched for the Elizabethton Twins in the Minnesota Twins system in 2003. He went 1-0 with a 4.80 ERA in 18 games, striking out 25 batters and walking nine in 30 innings of work. The Twins signed him as an undrafted free agent in 2002. He later pitched in the Hiroshima Carp in ni-gun but never made it to the big club.